Kurt Vile and the Violators

What the fuck is Kurt doing so low on the poster in such teeny-weeny font size? Regardless, I'm glad he got moved from Saturday to the less-stacked bill for Sunday. With a new album due in the spring, I imagine we can expect to hear some new tunes.

For those unfamiliar, check out these cuts from his past few releases: So Outta Reach EP (2011), Smoke Ring for My Halo (one of 2011's most widely acclaimed albums), and God Is Saying This To You? (2010).

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Miroir Noir posted the new single in another thread but posting it here as well. Was already planning on seeing this but is quickly becomming one of my more anticipated sets. Looking forward to the album.

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No, despite the fact that I love Childish Prodigy. It's probably a better-played album, but the songs on Smoke Ring are just so solid on every level, from performance to lyrics to arrangement to production. And it holds together so well as a piece.

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Definitely agree on those points about Smoke Ring but I think Childish is sequenced and stuff just as well, maybe the production is inferior. I mean, all the songs are so great and especially Dead Alive>Overnite Religion>Freak Train. What a 123 punch to the gut. Then Monkey>Heart Attack. Different strokes for different folks I guess. I know one thing we can agree on is the 6.3 from Pitchfork. They blew it on that rating

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Grantland/Pitchfork writer Steven Hyden reviewsWakin on a Pretty Daze. No P4k-style rating, but Hyden has largely positive things to say. I haven't listened to the stream yet, but I need to get on that shit. Here's the takeaway:

"On Wakin, Vile has taken his affecting fumbling one step forward into full-on musical expressionism. Heís elongated his ellipses as far as they can go, and filled them with squiggles of haze and acres of wide-open space. Itís probably as close to experiencing what the world is like inside Vileís head next to actually being Kurt Vile."